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Publications Richard Boast

Authored book

  • The Native/Maori Land Court Vol 3, 1910-1953: Collectivism, Land Development and the Law (Thomson Reuters, Wellington, 2019) 1253pp.
  • The Native Land Court Volume 2: A Historical Study, Cases and Commentary 1888–1909 (Thomson Reuters, Wellington, 2015) 1146 pp.
  • The Native Land Court 1862–1887: A Historical Study, Cases and Commentary (Thomson Reuters, Wellington, 2013) 1407 pp.
  • Buying the Land, Selling the Land (Victoria University Press and Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Wellington, 2008) 505 pp.
  • Foreshore and Seabed (Lexis Nexis, Wellington, 2005) 308 pp.
  • (With P Spiller and J Finn) A New Zealand Legal History (2nd ed, Brookers, Wellington, 2001) 377 pp.

              Edited book

              Chapter in book

              • "Adjudication of Indigenous-Settler Relations" in M D Dubber and C Tomlins (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Legal History (Oxford University Press, 2018) pp 1-21.
              • "Negotiations for Reconciliation: How they Can Exacerbate Division as well as Promote Reconciliation" in P Adds, B Bonisch-Brednich, RS Hill, G Whimp (eds) Reconciliation, Representation and Indigeneity 'Biculturalism' in Aotearoa (Universitatsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, 2016) pp 95-109.
              • "Vanished Theocracies: Christianity, war and politics in colonial New Zealand 1830–80" in Lisa Ford and Tim Rowse (eds) Between Indigenous and Settler Governance (Routledge, New York, 2013) pp 70-82. [pdf]
              • (with Susy Frankel) "Defining the Ambit of Regulatory Takings" in Susy Frankel and Deborah Ryder (eds) Recalibrating Behaviour: Smarter Regulation in a Global World (LexisNexis, Wellington, 2013) pp 329-362 SSRN.
              • "Regulatory Reform and Property Rights in New Zealand" in Susy Frankel (ed) Learning from the Past, Adapting for the Future: Regulatory Reform in New Zealand (LexisNexis, Wellington, 2011) pp 127-144. [pdf]
              • "Bringing the New Philology to Pacific Legal History" in Mamari Stephens (ed) Droit et Langue dans le Pacifique Sud: Essais Comparatistes/Law and Language in the South Pacific: Comparative Studies (Revue Juridique Polynesienne, Wellington, 2011) pp 237-257. [pdf]
              • "The Effects of Tenurial Change in Nineteenth-Century Latin America and New Zealand" in Nicola Gilmour and Warwick E Murray (eds) Parallel Pasts, Convergent Futures? Comparing New Zealand, Iberia and Latin America (Stout Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 2011) pp 35-52. [pdf]
              • "An Expensive Mistake: Law, Courts and Confiscation on the New Zealand Colonial Frontier" in PG McHugh, RP Boast and Mark Hickford (eds) Law and Confiscation: Essays on Raupatu in New Zealand History (Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 2010) pp 9-51. [pdf]
              • "Individualization—an idea whose time came, and went" in Lee Godden and Maureen Tehan (eds) Comparative Perspectives on Communal Lands and Individual Ownership: Sustainable Futures (Routledge, Abingdon (UK), 2010) pp 145-166. [pdf]
              • "New Zealand Legal History and New Zealand Historians: A Non-meeting of Minds" in James Belich and Lydia Wevers (eds) Antipodes: New Directions in History and Culture in Aotearoa New Zealand (Special Issue of the Journal of New Zealand Studies (Stout Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 2010) pp 23-35. [pdf]
              • "The Native Land Court and the Ten Owner Rule in Hawke's Bay, 1866–1873: An Analysis" in A H Angelo, O Aimot and Y-L Sage (eds) Droit Foncier et Gouvernance Judiciare dans le Pacifique Sud (Revue Juridique Polynesienne, Wellington, 2010) pp 169-212. [pdf]
              • "An Expensive Mistake: Law Courts and Confiscation on the New Zealand Colonial Frontier" in Richard Boast and Richard Hill (eds) Raupatu: The Confiscation of Māori Land (Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2009) pp 145-168. [pdf]
              • "The Court of Appeal and Indigenous Rights: From Ninety Mile Beach to Ngati Apa" in Rick Bigwood (ed) The Permanent New Zealand Court of Appeal: Essays on the First 50 Years (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2009) pp 275-295. [pdf]
              • (With Deborah Edmunds) "The Legacy of the Lands Case and the Struggle for Redress: Perspectives from Practice" in "In Good Faith" Jacinta Ruru (ed) (NZ Law Foundation and University of Otago, Wellington and Dunedin, 2008) pp 69-84.
              • "Foreshore and Seabed in New Zealand Law: A Legal-Historical Introduction" in Claire Charters and Andrew Erueti (eds) Māori Property Rights and the Foreshore and Seabed The Last Frontier (Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2007) pp 9-30.

              Journal articles (selection)

              • "Re-thinking Individualisation: Māori Land Development Policy and the Law in the age of Ngata (1920–1940)" (2019) 25 Canterbury Law Review pp 1-52.
              • "Tenurial Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Mexico, Central America, and New Zealand: A Study in Comparative Legal History" (2017) 23 NZ Association of Comparative Law Yearbook pp 1-16.
              • "The Native Land Court at Cambridge, Māori Land Alienation and the Private Sector" (2017) 25 Waikato Law Review pp 26-40.
              • "Gift of the Peaks: The Origins of Tongariro National Park" (2017) Hors Serie XXI Do Cultural and Property Combine to Make "Cultural Property" pp 73-100. [pdf]
              • "Māori Land and Land Tenure in New Zealand: 150 Years of the Māori Land Court" (2017) Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific pp 97-134. [pdf]
              • "The Native Land Court and the Writing of New Zealand History" (2017) 4 Law & History pp 145-171. [pdf]
              • "Land, Custom, and Ideology 1870–1940: The New Zealand Case in a Global Context" (2016) 37(2) Adelaide Law Review pp 325-368. [pdf]
              • "The Waitangi Tribunal in the Context of New Zealand's Political Culture and Historiography" (2016) 18 Journal of History of International Law pp 1-23.
              • "The Omahu Affair, the Law of Succession and the Native Land Court" (2015) 46 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp 841-874. [pdf]
              • "The Ideology of Tenurial Revolution: The Pacific Rim 1850–1950" (2014) 1 Law and History pp 139-159. [pdf]
              • "The Lost Jurisprudence of the Native Land Court: The Liberal Era 1891–1912" (2014) 12(1) New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law pp 81-102. [pdf]
              • "Property Rights and Public Law Traditions in New Zealand (2013) 11(1) New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law Special Issue: 21st Birthday of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act pp 161-182 SSRN.
              • "Foreshore and Seabed, Again" (2011) 9(2) New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law pp 273-286 SSRN.
              • "Treaties Nobody Counted On" (2011) 42(4) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp 653-670. [pdf]
              • "Bringing the New Philology to Pacific Legal History" (2011) 40(2) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp 399-416 SSRN.
              • "'So Long Lying Idle without a School': Wi Parata, Wallis and Whitireia, 1848–2008" December 2009 7(2) NZ Journal of Public and International Law pp 237-272. [pdf]
              • "Contextualising the Decisions of the Native Land Court: The Chatham Islands Investigations of 1870" (2010) 41(3) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp 623-652 SSRN.
              • "The 'Spanish' Origins of International Human Rights Law: A Historiographical Review" (2010) 41(2) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp 235-272. [pdf]
              • "Indigenous People and New Zealand Law: A Comparative Analysis" in Año 3 Numero 3 Revista Juridica (Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2010) pp 193-216. [pdf]
              • "Felix Cohen and the Spanish Moment in Federal Indian Law: A Study in Law, Politics and Historiography" (2008) 39(3) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp 419-456 SSRN.
              • "Sir John Salmond and Māori Land Tenure" (2007) 38(4) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp 831-852. [pdf]
              • "The Waitangi Tribunal and Transitional Justice" (2006) 4 Human Rights Research Journal pp 1-13. [pdf]
              • "Recognising Multitextualism: Rethinking New Zealand's Legal History" (2006) 37(4) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp 547-582. [pdf]
              • "Recent Developments in International Law: The International Criminal Court and the Pinochet Decision" in Paul Morris and Helen Greatrex (eds) Human Rights Research (Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington, 2003) pp 103-116. [pdf]
              • (With DA Edmunds), "Māori Claims to Petroleum in New Zealand" (2001) Australian Mining and Petroleum Association Yearbook pp 425-441.

              Book review

              • "Runnymede and Waitangi: Book Review of Stephen Walker and Chris Jones (eds) Magna Carta in New Zealand: History, Politics and Law in Aotearoa (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, Switzerland, 2017)" (2019) 25 Canterbury Law Review pp 245-249.
              • "Review of Historical Frictions: Māori Claims and Reinvented Histories by Michael Belgrave" (2006) 40(2) New Zealand Journal of History pp 252-254.

              Conference and oral presentations

              • "Law and Power on the Frontier" at A Conference to mark the retirement of the Chief Justice (31 Jan–1 Feb 2019, Auckland).
              • "The Revival of Collectivism and Māori Land Tenure 1900–1950" keynote at the 36th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Legal History Society (14–16 December 2017, Christchurch).
              • "Land and Legal History in Latin America" at CELAO2016 Conference (7–9 December, Wellington).
              • "The Waitangi Tribunal in the Context of New Zealand's Political Culture and Historiography" at Symposium on Colonialism and International Law, Bucerius Law School (Hamburg, March, 2014).
              • "The Lost Jurisprudence of the Native Land Court" at NZ Centre for Public Law Conference 2013 Unearthing New Zealand's Constitutional Traditions (Wellington, August, 2013).
              • (with Susy Frankel) "Regulatory Reform and Property Rights in New Zealand" NZ Law Foundation Regulatory Reform Project Workshop (Wellington, April 2012).
              • "A vanished theocracy: missionaries, allegiance and war in colonial New Zealand" Between Indigenous and Settler Governance (Sydney, August, 2011).
              • "Property Rights in New Zealand" at New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990—21st Birthday Celebration (Wellington, August, 2011).
              • "Treaties on the Frontier: Crown-Māori Treaties other than the Treaty of Waitangi, and their significance" inaugural lecture (Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, March, 2011).
              • "Tenurial Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Latin America and New Zealand" Parallel Pasts, Convergent Futures? Comparing New Zealand, Iberia and Latin America Stout Research Centre, Victoria Institute for Links with Latin America conference (Wellington, September 2010).
              • "The Maungataurari Cases in the Native Land Court" at the Australian and NZ Law and History Society Conference 2009 (Wellington, December, 2009).
              • "Indigenous Rights: from Ninety Mile beach to Ngati Apa" at The Permanent Court of Appeal: A Celebration of 50 Years conference (Wellington, 14 March 2008)
              • (with DA Edmunds) "The Legacy of Māori Council and the Struggle for Redress: Perspectives from Legal Practice" at the In Good Faith Symposium (Twentieth Anniversary of the Court of Appeal Māori Council decision) (University of Otago, Dunedin, 29 July 2007).
              • "Treaty or Treaties: Crown-Māori Agreements other than the Treaty of Waitangi" on Tuesday 17 April, Wellington.
              • "Individualisation: An idea whose time came, and went" at a seminar on Native Title and Individualisation (School of Law, University of Melbourne, July 2006).
              • "Sir John Salmond and statutory Māori Land Law" at Institute of Public Law Conference on Sir John Salmond (Victoria University of Wellington, August 2006).
              • "The Waitangi Tribunal and Transitional Justice" paper presented to Victoria University of Wellington Cross-Campus Symposium, Contemporary Human Rights in Perspective (Wellington, 23 August 2006).
              • "Law, Justices of the Peace, and Massacre: the Wairau Incident, 1843" Law, Histories Colonialism Conference (La Trobe University, Melbourne, September 2001).
              • With Edmunds, DA, "Native Title Claims to Petroleum in New Zealand", Australian Mining and Petroleum Law Association Conference, (Melbourne, August 2001).

              Reports

              • Evidence Summary for RP Boast , Ngati Raukawa: Custom, Colonisation and the Crown, Statement of expert evidence commissioned by the Crown Forestry Rental Trust for presentation at sitting of the Waitangi Tribunal (Porirua ki Manawatu Regional Inquiry) 11 March 2020 (17 pp) (Wai 2200 Doc#A215(b).
              • (with Alexander P Boast) "Ngati Raukawa: Custom, Colonisation and the Crown" Report Commissioned by the Crown Forestry Rental Trust, 2 vols (5 December 2018).
              • "Environmental Issues and Ngati Toa" (Wellington, Crown Forestry Rental Trust, 2007).
              • "Ngati Toa Lands 1840–1870" (Wellington, Crown Forestry Rental Trust, 2007) 413 pp.
              • Te Urewera in the 20th Century: An Overview Boast, Richard, a report to the Waitangi Tribunal, Wellington, 2002, 349 pp.